About Me

Ben Tafoya is the Academic Program Director responsible for the PhD Public Policy and Administration and the BS in Political Science at the Walden University School of Public Policy and Administration. Prior to joining Walden he was on the Political Science faculty at New England College in NH. He founded and ran the NEC Poll, recognized as one of the most accurate state level polling efforts in the nation for the 2012 election cycle.

Ben lives in Reading, MA (12 miles north of Boston) where he has served the community as an elected official for ten years. He is active in public policy and political affairs in Massachusetts. He has his Doctorate from Northeastern University, and MBA from Suffolk University and a BA in Economics from Georgetown University.